Speakers
Speaker | Date | Topic |
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Nathanael Billow | Feb 18, 2025 12:00 PM |
Club Assembly
Join us to discuss the Club and exchange ideas about how to continue to grow and serve our community. |
The Honorable Linda Tucci Teodosio | Feb 25, 2025 12:00 PM |
Summit County Juvenile Court
![]() Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio has worked as an attorney in private practice, a Magistrate in the Akron Municipal Court and as a Staff Attorney for the Ninth District Court of Appeals. Judge Teodosio was elected Judge of the Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court in 1997 where she served until her election to the Summit County Juvenile Court for the term beginning January 1, 2003. Judge Teodosio’s innovative work on the Juvenile Court bench has been extensively recognized in Summit County, Ohio and nationally. She is the longest serving Juvenile Court Judge in the County’s history. Judge Teodosio’s work on the Juvenile Court bench has been extensively recognized. In September 2016, she received the Thomas J. Moyer Award for Judicial Excellence from the Ohio State Bar Association. In late 2012, Judge Teodosio received the prestigious Award for Innovation from the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation. In 2010, she received the MacArthur Foundation’s “Champion for Change” Award for her work in the Models for Change Mental Health Juvenile Justice Action Network. Judge Teodosio was honored by the Diocese of Cleveland with the St. Thomas More Award which is awarded annually at the Red Mass in recognition of the virtues of integrity and public service that reflect those of Thomas More. In addition to her work on the bench, Judge Teodosio is active in numerous professional and community organizations. She has served as President of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Akron Bar Association, the Akron Bar Foundation, and the University of Akron School of Law Alumni Association. She is also actively involved in the foundation established to remember her late daughter through the Andrea Rose Teodosio Foundation. |
George Rosche | Mar 04, 2025 12:00 PM |
Chick-fil-A Franchise Owner/Operator
![]() Chick-fil-A Franchise Owner since July, 2022. Previously worked for over 20 years in several capacities at Owens Corning: Project Manager Director, Project Controls, Global Capital Sourcing, Director of Supply Chain, Plant Manager, Director of Finance, Finance Leader, and Plant Controller. Prior to Owens Corning, he was with Robert Bosch Corporation as a Financial Analyst. The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business Finance, Minor: Chemistry · (1997 - 2002) |
Ed Morrison | Mar 11, 2025 12:00 PM |
Ancient Order of Hibernians
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Dave Yost | Mar 18, 2025 12:00 PM |
Ohio Attorney General
![]() Dave Yost was re-elected as Ohio’s 51st attorney general on Nov. 8, 2022, receiving more votes than any other attorney general in the state’s history. |
John M. Williams, President and CEO | Mar 25, 2025 12:00 PM |
Akron Urban League
![]() John M. Williams is best described as a Servant Leader who uses education and advocacy to ameliorate social inequity. He graduated from Morehouse College, earning a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration in Banking and Finance. His corporate career includes serving as President and CEO of the Akron Urban League, Habitat for Humanity of Michigan, Interim Executive Director with Summit Education Initiative, Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer with Alpha Phi Alpha Homes, Ford Motor Company, and 20 years with Nissan North America. During his time at Nissan, he created Nissan North America’s Minority Dealer Development Initiative, which significantly increased minority dealer representation. John is a highly regarded local, regional, and national community leader with a wealth of experience in board development, parliamentary procedure and protocol, organizational development, and strategic planning and system change. His expertise extends to organizational transformation, fiscal management, and plan implementation. He has a proven track record in preparing organization governance documents and is well-versed in corporate and Christian leadership, education, and ecumenical organizational structures. Though John's leadership roles include serving on boards, you can often find him serving the youth of our community, reading to kindergartners, registering voters, and training teenagers to become community leaders. John is an Executive Producer of the Emmy Award-winning documentary An Answer From Akron, a PBS documentary on the history of Alpha Phi Alpha Homes, Inc. John has served on many boards including Board Chair, Fair Lending Services, Board Member, Affiliate Mortgage Services; Former President, Akron Summit Community Redevelopment Coalition; Former Board Chair, Akron-Canton Airport Board; graduate and Former Board Secretary of Leadership Akron and Former Chair of the Steering Committee for Diversity on Board; Former Board Chair, County of Summit Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health (ADM) Board; Former President, Akron Roundtable; Former Board Vice-Chair, Summit Education Initiative (SEI); Secretary, Western Reserve Community Fund; and former board member of Ronald McDonald House of Northeast Ohio. |
Pam Hickson-Stevenson Executive Director | Apr 15, 2025 12:00 PM |
Akron Summit County Library
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